23: Poor Qiao Ya wants to cooperate with Dongda again

Seeing Polaris's serious expression, Joa's mouth twitched.

He couldn't tell at all that Polaris was such a love-struck woman.

"Elbow! Come with me into the facility! I'll let You truly experience my feelings for You."

"Lest You overthink things all day long."

The underground facility was incredibly vast.

To be honest, when he first entered, even Joa was shocked by the internal space of the facility.

Compared to the facilities in Morality and Rule of Law 5, his was much larger.

Armory, military industrial zone, living quarters, experimental zone, research and development zone, and so on.

If he wasn't averse to living underground, Joa could completely move into the facility from now on.

Aside from not seeing the Sun, it could satisfy all living needs; whatever was available in the city, the facility had it.

A few hours later.

Outside a luxurious suite in the living quarters.

Gently closing the door.

Rubbing his somewhat sore butt and waist, Joa couldn't stop mumbling.

"It's indeed nice to have someone care about one's feelings so much."

"It's just a bit too energy-consuming when comforting."

Though he said that, Joa himself was actually quite enjoying it.

"Whew, it's time to check out the production lines."

"I hope this production line is complete, and doesn't require overcoming other technical difficulties to manufacture things."

Looking at the internal building map of the facility on the living quarters corridor wall.

Joa searched for a long time before finding the military industrial zone.

The enormous facility was empty, with only Joa and Polaris inside.

"The level of automated management... is too high."

"It can run without anyone maintaining it. Tsk tsk, as expected of something rewarded by the System."

"The only flaw is probably the lack of super AIs like Jarvis or Red Queen."

electromagnetic rifles, khanjali tanks, leviathan fighters, and Tyrant Mark 2 aerial combat motorcycles.

The four complete production lines rewarded by the System were placed in four different large factories.

The production lines were fully automated; as long as there were enough materials, a large number of workers weren't needed, only a few technicians to monitor from the central control room.

That would be enough to complete the production of all items.

Moreover, the production efficiency was very high.

With sufficient materials, if the factories ran at full capacity, manufacturing a hundred khanjali tanks would only take half a month.

The efficiency of the other three factories was also the same.

Sitting in the chair in the central control room, looking at the material list on the central control room's computer.

Then he lowered his head and looked at the prices of various materials he had found on his phone.

Joa's gaze was dull.

'Half a month?'

'The efficiency is good...'

'But... these materials are too expensive.'

A Tyrant Mark 2 had a material cost of twenty million U.S. dollars.

A khanjali was ten million U.S. dollars.

A Leviathan was one hundred and fifty million U.S. dollars.

An electromagnetic rifle was one hundred and fifty thousand U.S. dollars.

'Heh, hehe, I thought I was about to become rich.'

'I was too naive.'

'A mere fifty billion U.S. dollars can only build about thirty Leviathans.'

Closing his eyes, wanting to cry but having no tears, Joa took deep breaths one after another, calming the complex emotions in his heart.

'Is this still U.S. dollars? Isn't this just toilet paper?'

Feeling sad about his poverty, Joa tearfully gave up the idea of mass-producing these weapons of mass destruction.

He couldn't afford it, truly couldn't afford it.

Even if Stark were to do it, he still couldn't afford it.

However, even if he couldn't mass-produce them.

Joa could still afford to produce a small quantity.

But this was far from what he had envisioned.

leviathan fighters darkening the sky like locusts crossing the border.

khanjali tanks covering mountains and plains like ants, too numerous to count.

Pushing through the Resident Evil World all the way to snatch the Progenitor Virus.

It was too far off.

'Three Leviathans, four hundred and fifty million U.S. dollars.'

'One hundred khanjali tanks, one billion U.S. dollars.'

'Mark 2... twenty million U.S. dollars each, one for himself and one for Lorna, that's forty million U.S. dollars.'

'Two hundred electromagnetic rifles, thirty million U.S. dollars.'

'Merryweather still needs a ten billion U.S. dollar investment.'

'DeFrey and Avi's shares... if it's fifty million U.S. dollars each, that's another one hundred million U.S. dollars gone.'

'All of this totals... two billion six hundred and twenty million U.S. dollars!?'

'Damn it!'

'Money! My money!'

After silently calculating the sum in his mind, Joa secretly hardened his resolve.

'No! I can't just snatch the Progenitor Virus and come back.'

'With so much money invested, if I don't come back with a full harvest, I won't be reconciled!'

'Gold, rare metals, various technological data, anything valuable must be plundered!'

Thinking of this, Joa questioned the System in his mind.

'System! Is the Resident Evil World a game World or a movie World?'

“The Resident Evil dungeon is a game Universe.”

Upon receiving the System's reply, Joa frowned.

'Why is it a game World?'

In the Resident Evil games, the governments of various countries didn't paralyze due to the outbreak of the biohazard.

How could he happily plunder then?

'System, what time node will it be when I enter the Resident Evil World?'

“The time node is September 8, 1998, half a month before the Raccoon City crisis outbreak.”

Knowing the entry time node, Joa stroked his chin.

'Half a month should be enough time for me to find the Sun Ladder.'

'System, can I choose the Crossing (travel) location?'

“Only the first entry allows for a specified location.”

'Tsk, it seems I can't exploit glitches.'

Joa originally wanted to bring two hundred Merryweather mercenaries to the vicinity of the Ndybya tribe in Africa.

Then, after snatching the Sun Ladder, he would return to Marvel and then cross over to Raccoon City.

This would save a lot of travel time.

Unfortunately...

'Since the glitch can't be exploited, I'll have to find another way.'

Troop transport helicopters, ships, fuel, armored vehicles, and living supplies for two hundred people, these would still cost money.

As for ordinary equipment, weapons, and bullets, Merryweather already had them in stock, a full ten large warehouses.

But where to find fighter pilots, this question stumped Joa.

After much thought, Joa's gaze sharpened.

He made a decision in his mind.

His own strength alone was too small.

'Perhaps I can sell the design blueprints for the khanjali tank, leviathan fighter, and electromagnetic rifle to East University.'

'This would not only alleviate some financial pressure but also allow me to buy many sensitive items.'

Things like armored vehicles, troop transport helicopters, and warships.

Joa could find ways to buy them in America.

But explaining what they were for would be difficult.

And those extremely expensive materials.

Such as the coating on the surface of the khanjali and Leviathan that could reflect electromagnetic waves, thus achieving radar invisibility.

Even if the U.S. government sold it, Joa wouldn't dare to buy it.

But cooperating with East University was different.

One was Joa, who had secretly developed in America, robbed banks, and caused America to lose face internationally.

In the future, he might even do things that harm America.

The other was a certain mysterious Eastern great nation that was constantly targeted by America, with technology blockades and trade wars.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend; to some extent, both sides had common interests.

Wasn't this a natural ally?

'It's still more reassuring to cooperate with East University.'

'I remember before I crossed over, the Camel bought tens of billions of weapons from East University, but they were seized by the Beard during transport.'

'The Beard didn't harm anyone, just confiscated the weapons and safely released the people.'

'All those weapons were used to attack America's aircraft carriers.'

'Isn't this similar to my current situation?'